1. whaler - Noun
2. Whaler - Proper noun
A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey. Parker Stevenson
Delbanco (2005), 27 1839–1844: Years at sea On May 31, 1839, Gansevoort, then living in New York City, wrote that he was sure Herman could get a job on a whaler or merchant vessel. Source: Internet
Matthiessen (1941), 431 Background Autobiographical elements Moby-Dick is based on Melville's actual experience on a whaler. Source: Internet
In 1775, the whaler Herald found the Octavius adrift near Greenland with the bodies of her crew frozen below decks. Source: Internet
Franklin put the question to his cousin Timothy Folger, a Nantucket whaler captain, who told him that merchant ships routinely avoided a strong eastbound mid-ocean current. Source: Internet
Sightings by whalers Captain George B. Worth of the Nantucket whaler Oeno sighted Howland around 1822 and called it Worth Island. Source: Internet